Nse Ikpe-Etim

Background and Introduction

Mrs Nse Etim is a Nigerian actress popular for her role in Reloaded 2008 which was her break out year. The movie made her a prominent figure in the Nigerian Movie Industry and that earned her a nomination for Best Actress for Leading Role at the 5th and 8th Africa Movie Academy Awards and for her role in Mr and Mrs. In 2014, Mrs Nse Etim won Best Actress in a Drama award at the 2014 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards for playing "Nse".

Early Life and Background

Mrs Nse Etim hails from Akwa-Ibom state, known to have attended Awa Nursery School Kaduna for her elementary education. A few years later, the dad got transferred to jos, she had to change to Command Children’s school, Jos. Mr. Etim, Nse's father worked as a staff of Central Bank of Nigeria and had to move from time to time, this led to Nse changing schools very often during her Elementary and high school education Educations.

Nse attended the following Secondary school

St. Louis College Jos

Federal Government College, Jos and

Federal Government College Ilorin.

After secondary education, she took her education further and got a Bachelor’s Degree in Theatre Arts from the University of Calabar. Unlike most Nigerian actors and actresses, Nse Ikpe Etim never rushed into the industry but took her time to groom herself and talent.

Nse started acting from her career from secondary school. Do to her fluency, eloquence and brilliance, she took part in a lots of acting activities like drama, debates and short films. Nse was a very active member of the drama club in the University of Calabar where she started off her acting career in full swing.

After graduating from the University of Calabar, Nse didn't move into the industry at first, she dived into the banking sector and had a great spell in the fashion industry too. She was briefly involved in the fashion industry. Nse was also t.v personality for a host of Media outlets like Cool Fm and Rhythm

Career and Life

Nse started acting following her enrolling at university of Calabar drama club but after graduation, she paused from acting to go into Banking and Business sectors respectively, including a spell in the fashion industry. Finally, Nse made her first television appearance was in the family soap Inheritance.Nse starred in Emem Isong’s Reloaded in 2008 which proved to be her major comeback into the movie industry, the movie also featured Ramsey Nouah, Rita Dominic and Desmond Elliot. In 2011, she featured in the cracker Mr and Mrs which cemented her spot in the Movie Industry. Nse has featured in lots of movies since then, from Reloaded to Guilty Pleasures, Kiss and Tell, The Meeting, Mr and Mrs, Phone Swap, Broken,Journey tos Self, Black November to and lots more.

In a recent interview...

What was your first day on set like?

Now
which of the first day? i think I have had two first days on set. Now
is it from the early days when I first came in, or my come back which
was Reloaded by Emem Isong? Which one of them?

Let’s talk about the first one because I still have a question on reloaded

Reloaded
(smiling)…For the first one, my first day on set wasn’t anything
spectacular. I did it, you know fresh out of school, you're definitely
thinking about a lot of things. You know you are not sure, and then
being a rebel, I didn’t want to be a banker, which was what my mother
wanted me to do, so this was my way of saying, I’m not going to do what
she wants me to do.I
didn’t even know what I wanted to do at the time but it was just a case
of ‘okay, just try’. And then I tried. The set I enjoyed back then was
when I did ‘Scars of Womanhood’ with Basorge Tariah Jnr, then in 2009 I
now did Reloaded. And I always say my coming back into the industry was
not designed and planned, my passion and hobby has always been my
kitchen, writing and all that. For me, I was writing here and there.
Emem brought a script and I’m looking at it like ‘what can we do because
I want to play this role’ and then she starts cursing me in my
kitchen...i said to her what is wrong with you; I’m not an actor and of
course she said I didn’t have faith in myself and all sort of stuff.
Finally I said ‘okay’ and finally she was able to convince me and I did
it.

On the set of the movie Phone Swap, we learned you were injured. How did it happen?

I
had already fallen off from the bike while filming two days before on
set. So I was still a bit sore. And so the next day I tried to pick up a
phone which was ringing, and when I stretched to pick it, I slipped and
fell. I am grateful to the people who came to my rescue at that time. I
shall not mention their names but I say thank you to all of them. Thank
you… (laughs)

Mid January 2013 saw Nse Ikpe Etim getting engaged to her childhood friend Clifford Sule who is currently a senior lecturer at the Middlesex University, UK. Two months after her engagement, Nse tied the knots at 39, she got married to her childhood friend Clifford Sule on February 14, 2013 at a Lagos registry followed by a traditional wedding ceremony in her hometown of Akwa Ibom State some months after the civil union. Nse currently lives in London with her husband currently serving as senior Lecturer at Middlesex University .

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